Online Color Analysis
Receive a personalized assessment using unfiltered photos to evaluate your hue, value, intensity, and contrast, with color direction designed around your natural features.
Discover the colors that make your natural features stand out with a personalized online color analysis from Sterling Personal Styling. Using the Sterling Color Quality System™, we assess undertone, depth, intensity, and contrast to create guidance for clothing, hair, makeup, and accessories. Birmingham clients can enjoy expert virtual direction without navigating a one-size-fits-all seasonal result.
Explore virtual assessments, personalized palette guidance, and practical tools for choosing colors with confidence.
Receive a personalized assessment using unfiltered photos to evaluate your hue, value, intensity, and contrast, with color direction designed around your natural features.
Meet virtually with a professional stylist for detailed guidance on flattering clothing, makeup, jewelry, and hair colors, plus answers tailored to your wardrobe goals.
Learn core color theory and apply undertone, depth, and chroma insights to everyday outfit choices through a digital guide created for independent exploration.
Use a customizable digital palette featuring curated Pantone colors, accent shades, and neutrals to support wardrobe planning, mood boards, and outfit coordination.
Pair your color direction with virtual wardrobe review, shopping recommendations, and outfit curation to turn your best colors into wearable daily combinations.
Build professional color-consulting skills through self-paced training in undertones, temperature, value, chroma, contrast, and virtual or in-person consultation methods.
Color analysis replaces guesswork with a practical framework for selecting shades that harmonize with your natural coloring. The Sterling Color Quality System™ considers hue, value, intensity, and contrast—not simply a traditional season—to create more individualized recommendations. For Birmingham, AL clients, virtual delivery makes it simple to get clear color direction for workwear, special occasions, makeup, hair, and everyday wardrobe decisions.
See how personalized color direction helps clients make more confident, intentional wardrobe choices.
Expert-led color guidance combines modern analysis with practical, client-focused styling direction.
Michelle T. Sterling brings more than 20 years of fashion and image-consulting experience.
The Sterling Color Quality System™ evaluates multiple color dimensions beyond traditional seasonal labels.
Training and client guidance are informed by an alumni network spanning more than 60 countries.
Birmingham clients can receive detailed color direction remotely, without travel or a generic assessment.
Founder and Training Director
Sterling Style Academy provides professional education in image consulting, personal styling, color analysis, personal shopping and fashion styling for students around the world. Founded by Michelle T. Sterling, the Academy offers both flexible online courses and intensive in-person certification programs designed to build practical, client-ready skills.
Students can choose from the 1-Day Stylist Training, 2-Day Color Analysis Training, 3-Day Fashion Stylist & Color Analysis Training, 5-Day Personal Stylist Training, 7-Day Image Consultant Training, or the comprehensive 2-Week Image Consultant & Personal Stylist Training.
In addition to training students, Sterling Style Academy works with private clients through Sterling Personal Styling, offering image consulting, personal styling, and color analysis services.
A color analysis identifies the colors that best harmonize with your natural coloring. Sterling evaluates factors such as skin undertone, temperature, depth or value, intensity or chroma, and personal contrast. The result is practical direction for selecting clothing, makeup, jewelry, and hair shades that support your features and make wardrobe choices easier.
Speak with a stylist about the right virtual option.
Multiple Award-Winning, Professionally Certified Image Consultant and Industry Leader
Recognized for professional excellence and leadership in the image-consulting and styling industry.
Recognized for influence and leadership in online personal styling.
Featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, WWD, Business Insider, E! News and HuffPost.
Share your color goals, and we’ll help you select the virtual analysis or styling service that fits.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.